Jewels and Ashes

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Author(s)Arnold Zable
Description'Do you ever think about those you left behind?' I ask father. 'Not often' he says. 'Such memories are a luxury I can't afford.' 'Jewels and Ashes' is the result of that journey of discovery. Moving effortlessly between centuries and continents, this story is an astonishing achievement. Beginning with his parents journey to the New World n the 1930s from a seething Europe, the author, growing up in Australia, heard the tales, songs, the fragments of the world they had left behind. He inherited a fractured, vibrant past which both fascinated and disturbed him. To confront the mystery he travelled back to the Old World, to his parents' home, to his grandparents' birthplace, and to a land pervaded by ancestral ghosts.
Publication Date1 July 2001
PublisherScribe Publications Pty Ltd.
Pages210
ISBN 139780910000000
ISBN 10908011202
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